Editors:
- Features some of the leading gender historians and scholars on female rule
- Provides a widely diverse analysis of queenship in modern history
- Drives queenship studies in new directions and into new areas and methods of research
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Biography, Gossip and History
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Front Matter
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Politics, Ambition and Scandal
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field. This book is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the women and some of the men. The contributors answers questions about the nature of queenship, reputation of queens, and gender roles in the medieval and early modern west. The essays question the viability of propaganda, gossip, and rumor that still characterizes some queens in modern histories. The wide geographic range covered by the contributors moves queenship studies beyond France and England to understudied places such as Sweden and Hungary. Even the essays on more familiar countries explores areas not usually studied, such as the role of Edward II’s stepmother, Margaret of France in Gaveston’s downfall. The chapters clearly have a common thread and the editors’ summary and description of the collection is valuablein assisting the reader. The collection is divided into two sections “Biography, Gossip, and History” and “Politics, Ambition, and Scandal.” The editors and contributors, including Zita Eva Rohr and Elena Woodacre, are scholars at the top of their field and several and engage and debate with recent scholarship. This collection will appeal internationally to literary scholars and gender studies scholars as well historians interested in the countries included in the collection.
Editors and Affiliations
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Sydney, Australia
Zita Eva Rohr
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Salem, USA
Lisa Benz
About the editors
Lisa Benz completed her PhD in history at the University of York, UK She is the author of Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queenship, Gender, and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600
Editors: Zita Eva Rohr, Lisa Benz
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31283-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31282-8Published: 17 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81006-5Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31283-5Published: 08 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 214
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social History, History of Medieval Europe, History of Early Modern Europe, Gender Studies